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Environmental factors determine whether immigrants are accepted by cooperatively breeding animals

15 Feb 2013

Perceived risk of predation increased acceptance of immigrants into group.

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PTO organ with hair cells labelled in green

Natural barometer in birds evolved from ancient fish sense organ

04 Sep 2012

New research indicates that a bird’s ability to detect changes in air pressure is the evolutionary remnant of an ancient sense organ found in sharks...

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Seahorse

Seahorses and the "onion world"

24 May 2012

Dr Amanda Vincent – one of the world’s leading experts on seahorses and their relatives – is spending a year at Cambridge’s Department of Geography...

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elephant fish embryo

Under the Microscope #15 - Elephant fish embryo

12 Mar 2012

Dr Andrew Gillis shows us an elephant fish embryo, which live in their egg and feed off of their yolk supply for 7 to 10 months before hatching out...

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Skate head

Under the Microscope #9 – Skate head

16 Feb 2012

Dr Andrew Gillis shows us an embryonic skate head and explains how the red denticles dotted all over it have very similar properties to human teeth...

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Grouper and moray.

Memory like a fish

09 Dec 2011

The traditional belief that fish have short memory spans may not be as true as we thought. Gates scholar Alex Vail is carrying out research that...

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cleaner fish

Cleaner fish respond to the shadow of the future

03 Jun 2010

Tropical fish alter their behaviour with an eye to the future, researchers at Cambridge have found. This is the first time such behaviour has been...

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Coral Reef at Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge

Researchers appeal for new regulations to save coral reefs from live fish trade

04 Aug 2006

Researchers are calling for tighter controls on the live reef fish trade, a growing threat to coral reefs, in letters to the international journal...

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